Lechea torreyi |
Lechea cernua |
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Piedmont pinweed |
nodding pinweed |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial. | Subshrubs. | ||||
Stems | basal produced; flowering erect, 30–50 cm, densely sericeous. |
basal not produced; flowering spreading-ascending, (10–)20–30 cm, densely sericeous. |
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Leaves | of flowering stems alternate to subopposite; blade linear to narrowly elliptic, 10–20 × 1–1.5 mm, apex acute, abaxial surface pilose, adaxial glabrous. |
of flowering stems alternate; blade elliptic-ovate to orbiculate, 5–12 × 4–10 mm, apex acute, often mucronate, abaxial surface pilose to tomentose, adaxial pilose. |
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Pedicels | 1 per axil, 0.5–1.5 mm. |
2–3 per axil, 1.5–2.5 mm. |
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Flowers | calyx 1.8–2.1 mm, outer sepals shorter than inner. |
calyx 1.8–2 mm, outer sepals shorter than inner. |
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Capsules | ovoid, 1.5–1.7 × 1.4–1.5 mm, shorter than or ± equaling calyx, with persistent stigma. |
ellipsoid to obovoid, 1.8–2 × 1.2–1.5 mm, ± equaling calyx. |
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Seeds | 3–6. |
1–2. |
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Lechea torreyi |
Lechea cernua |
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Phenology | Flowering spring; fruiting summer–fall. | |||||
Habitat | Dry, open sand-scrub and flatwoods margins | |||||
Elevation | 0–50 m (0–200 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
AL; FL; GA; MS; NC; SC; Central America (Belize)
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FL |
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Discussion | Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Lechea cernua is endemic to much of peninsular Florida but is absent from the Florida Keys and panhandle. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 6, p. 397. | FNA vol. 6, p. 391. | ||||
Parent taxa | Cistaceae > Lechea | Cistaceae > Lechea | ||||
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Name authority | Leggett ex Britton: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 21: 251. (1894) | Small: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 51: 384. (1924) | ||||
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